Avatar sequels titles revealed?

Image copyright20th Century FoxImage caption The original Avatar film, starred Sam Worthington as Jake Sully and Zoe Saldana as Neytiri

Nearly a decade after its 2009 release, director James Cameron’s Avatar remains the highest grossing film of all time at the worldwide box office with takings of $2.8 billion.

The 3D extravaganza starring Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana is set on Pandora, a distant planet inhabited by the Na’vi a race of aliens with blue skin.

For the past few years the four planned follow-ups have simply been referred to as Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Avatar 4 and Avatar 5.

And details about the four sequels have been more elusive than the element Unobtanium!

This week however, BBC News has seen documentation regarding future Avatar plans which makes reference to four specific projects. Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa.

The Way of Water

James Cameron has said that future instalments of the film will explore the planet Pandora’s oceans and in 2017, confirmed to Collider that “there’s a tremendous amount of water work across Avatar 2 and 3”

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Cameron also revealed that Kate Winslet, who he worked with on Titanic, was joining the Avatar series playing “a character who’s part of the Sea People, the reef people.”

Eywa in The Quest for Eywa appears to be a reference to the deity and goddess of the Na’vi people who inhabit Pandora.